We all know that Russia and China and Iran are growing their military forces and developing new weaponry. Well, for most of the past seventy years the counter to these and other aggressive nations has been the US at the head of a very powerful...
You know, we should never send our young men and women into harm’s way if we don’t plan to do all that it takes to win the conflict. We have a lot of good examples in the past few decades of how not to fight a war. In our current so-called war—the...
Comments by a veteran: Friends, after watching the ABC-hosted debate among some of the Republican candidates for president last weekend, I’m a bit annoyed—at the candidates. Yes, the questioners were off-base, but I fully expected that from ABC. It...
Recently, the Military Times published an article about the declining morale in our armed forces. It did and should have hit a big nerve. A military with poor morale is a military that fights poorly, takes more casualties, and loses fights. I hope...
A week ago I saw the movie, 13 Hours, the Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. Then I met and talked with a guy who was there, Kris Tanto Paranto. My friend and professional theater critic Kevin Carr reviewed the movie for me a couple of weeks ago as it was...
My topic is women in our military’s close-combat units. Let me be clear; women have served in combat and are now serving in combat units and perform very well. However, in what I’ll call the tip-of-the-spear units, infantry, armor, and Special Ops...
Well, the president has made it very clear that he plans to unilaterally do all he can to remove the rights of Americans to possess firearms. It’s very plain to me that we Americans do have Second Amendment rights to possess firearms if we wish...
On the afternoon of October 7, 2001, the first day of the war in Afghanistan, an Air Force pilot named Scott Swanson made history while sitting in a captain’s chair designed for an RV. His contribution to posterity was to kill someone in a...
I didn’t check all of this out personally, but I did check enough to know that pork products are used a lot in both weapons and medicines. Percy, The Pig, makes for an extremely interesting read. I never knew pigs were in most products! Every Muslim...
This is not a new poem, but it remains true. These youth don’t whine, get offended, and need a quiet space when confronted with a challenge–they deal with it. If they aren’t the future of America–then America has no future...